2023 |
Student authors underlined |
Ayers AC, Rehan SM (2023) Bee-plant interaction and community response along an urbanization gradient. Journal of Urban Ecology. 9:juad006 [pdf]
Brasil SNR, Ayers AC, Rehan SM (2023) The effect of urbanization and seasonality on wild bee abundance, body size and foraging efforts. Ecological Entomology. 48:499-507 [pdf]
Brasil SNR, George M, Rehan SM (20230 Functional traits of wild bees in response to urbanization. Journal of Insect Conservation. In press. DOI:10.1007/s10841-023-00528-1 [pdf]
Brasil SNR, Kelemen EP, Rehan SM (2023) Historic DNA uncovers genetic effects of climate change and landscape alteration in two wild bee species. Conservation Genetics. 24:85-98 [pdf]
Brasil SNR, Khair M, Ayers AC, Huisken JL, Rehan SM (2023) Urban landscapes affect wild bee maternal investment and body size. Urban Ecosystems. 26:1319-1329 [pdf]
Chau KD, Samad-zada F, Kelemen EP, Rehan SM (2023) Integrative population genetics and metagenomics reveals urbanization increases pathogen loads and decreases connectivity in a wild bee. Global Change Biology. 29:4193-4211 [pdf]
Chau KD, Shamekh M, Husiken JL, Rehan SM (2023) The effects of maternal care on the developmental transcriptome and metatranscriptome of a wild bee. Communications Biology. 6:904 [pdf]
Favreau EA, Geist KS, Wyatt CDR, Toth AL, Sumner SS, Rehan SM (2023) Co-expression gene networks and machine-learning algorithms unveil a core genetic toolkit for reproductive division of labour in rudimentary insect societies. Genome Biology and Evolution. 15:evac174 [pdf]
Gotelli NJ, Booher DB, Urban MC, Ulrich W, Suarez AV, Skelly DK, Russell DJ, Rowe RJ, Rothendler M, Rios N, Rehan SM, Ni G, Moreau CS, Magurran AE, Jones FAM, Graves GR, Fiera C, Burkhardt U, Primack RB (2023) Estimating species relative abundances from museum records. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 14:431-443 [pdf]
Huisken JL, Rehan SM (2023) Brain gene expression of foraging behaviour and social environment in Ceratina calcarata. Genome Biology and Evolution. 15:evad117 [pdf]
Mikát M, Rehan SM (2023) Large fitness benefits of social nesting in a small carpenter bee. Behavioral Ecology. 34:1066-1075 [pdf]
Nguyen PN, Rehan SM (2023) Environmental effects on the bee microbiome. Microbial Ecology. 86:1487-1498 [pdf]
Nguyen PN, Rehan SM (2023) Wild bee and pollen microbiomes across an urban-rural divide. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. In press [pdf]
Pyenson B, Rehan SM (2023) Gene expression across socially diverse insects. Genome. In press [pdf]
Samad-zada F, Kelemen EP, Rehan SM (2023) The impact of geography and climate on the population structure and local adaptation in a wild bee. Evolutionary Applications. 16:1154-1168 [pdf]
Samad-zada F, Rehan SM (2023) The use of pinned specimens helps uncover patterns of genetic differentiation and signatures of selection in a wild pollinator. Global Ecology and Conservation. 46:e02593 [pdf]
Sumner S, Favreau E, Geist K, Toth AL, Rehan SM (2023) Molecular patterns and processes in evolving sociality: lessons from insects. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. 378:20220076 [pdf]
2022
Gaiarsa MP, Rehan SM, Barbour MA, McFrederick QS (2022) Individual dietary specialization in a generalist bee varies across populations but has no effect on the richness of associated microbial communities. The American Naturalist. 200:621-737 [pdf]
Huisken JL, Rehan SM (2022) Effects of nutritional manipulation on intranidal social behaviour in a small carpenter bee. Animal Behaviour. 191:135-141 [pdf]
Jaumann S, Rehan SM, Schwartz K, Smith AR (2022) Reduced neural investment in post-reproductive females of the bee Ceratina calcarata. Scientific Reports. 12:8256 [pdf]
Mikát M, Rehan SM (2022) Sociality in the North African small carpenter bee, Ceratina albosticta. Insectes Sociaux. 69:315-324 [pdf]
Nguyen PN, Rehan SM (2022) Developmental microbiome of the small carpenter bee, Ceratina calcarata. Environmental DNA. 4:808-819 [pdf]
Nguyen PN, Rehan SM (2022) The effects of urban land use gradients on wild bee microbiomes. Frontiers in Microbiology. 13:992660 [pdf]
Nooten SS, Rehan SM (2022) Effects of land use type and seasonal climate on ground nesting wild bees. Agricultural and Forest Entomology. 24:229-236 [pdf]
Odanaka KA, Branstetter MG, Tobin KB, Rehan SM (2022) Phylogenomics and historical biogeography of the cleptoparasitic bee genus Nomada (Hymenoptera: Apidae) using ultraconserved elements. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 170:107453 [pdf]
Shell WA, Rehan SM (2022) Social divergence: molecular pathways underlying castes and longevity in a facultatively eusocial small carpenter bee. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 289:20212663 [pdf]
Shell WA, Rehan SM (2022) Comparative metagenomics reveals expanded insights into intra- and interspecific variation among wild bee microbiomes. Communications Biology. 5:603 [pdf]
2021
Ayers AC, Rehan SM (2021) Supporting bees in cities: How bees are influenced by local and landscape features. Insects. 12:128 [pdf]
Conrad KM, Peters VE, Rehan SM (2021) Tropical bee species abundance differs within a narrow elevational gradient. Scientific Reports. 11:23368. [pdf]
Harpur BA, Rehan SM (2021) Connecting social polymorphism to single nucleotide polymorphism: Population genomics of the small carpenter bee, Ceratina australensis. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 132:945-954 [pdf]
Huisken JL, Shell WA, Pare HK, Rehan SM (2021) The influence of social environment on cooperation and conflict in an incipiently social bee, Ceratina calcarata. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 75:74 [pdf]
Kelemen EP, Rehan SM (2021) Opposing pressures of climate and land use change on a native bee. Global Change Biology. 27:1017-1026 [pdf]
Kelemen EP, Rehan SM (2021) Conservation insights from wild bee genetic studies: geographic differences, susceptibility to inbreeding, and signs of local adaptation. Evolutionary Applications. 14:1485-1496 [pdf]
Lawson SP, Kennedy K, Rehan SM (2021) Pollen composition significantly impacts development and survival of the native small carpenter bee, Ceratina calcarata. Ecological Entomology. 46:232-239 [pdf]
Oppenheimer RL, Rehan SM (2021) Inclusive fitness of male and facultatively social female nesting behavior in the socially polymorphic bee, Ceratina australensis. Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 114:627–636 [pdf]
Pizzi NJ, Rehan SM (2021) Characterization of cuticular hydrocarbons in a subsocial bee, Ceratina calcarata Robertson (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Insectes Sociaux. 68:351–358 [pdf]
Rehan SM (2021) Genome architecture and social evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118:e2109409118 [pdf]
Shell WA, Steffen MA, Pare HK, Seetharam AS, Severin AJ, Toth AL, Rehan SM (2021) Sociality sculpts similar patterns of molecular evolution in two independently evolved lineages of eusocial bees. Communications Biology. 4:253 [pdf]
2020
Dew RM, McFrederick QS, Rehan SM (2020) Diverse diets with consistent core microbiome in wild bee pollen
provisions. Insects. 11:49 [pdf]
Mathiasson ME, Rehan SM (2020) Wild bee declines linked to plant-pollinator network changes and plant species introductions. Insect Conservation and Diversity. 13:595-605 [pdf]
Nooten SS, Odanaka KA, Rehan SM (2020) Characterisation of wild bee communities in apple and blueberry orchards. Agricultural and Forest Entomology. 22:157-168 [pdf]
Nooten SS, Odanaka KA, Rehan SM (2020) Effects of farmland and seasonal phenology on wild bees in blueberry orchards. Northeastern Naturalist. 27:841–860 [pdf]
Nooten SS, Rehan SM (2020) Historical changes in bumble bee body size and range shift of declining species. Biodiversity and Conservation. 29:451–467 [pdf]
Odanaka KA, Rehan SM (2020) Wild bee distribution near forested landscapes is dependent on successional state. Forest Ecosystems. 7:26 [pdf]
Rehan SM (2020) Small carpenter bees (Ceratina). Encyclopedia of Social Insects. ed. Chris Stark. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90306-4_106-1 [pdf]
Steffen MA, Rehan SM (2020) Genetic signatures of dominance hierarchies reveal conserved cis-regulatory and brain gene expression underlying aggression in a facultatively social bee. Genes, Brain and Behavior. 19:e12597 [pdf]
2019
Cook CN, Lawson SP, Brent CS, Rehan SM (2019) Biogenic amines shift during the pre-reproductive to reproductive transition in the small carpenter bee, Ceratina calcarata. Apidologie. 50:90-99 [pdf]
Dew RM, Silva DP, Rehan SM (2019) Range expansion of an already widespread bee under climate change. Global Ecology and Conservation. e00584 [pdf]
Mathiasson ME, Rehan SM (2019) Status changes in the wild bees of northeastern North America over 125 years revealed though museum specimens. Insect Conservation and Diversity. 12:278-288 [pdf]
McFrederick QS, Rehan SM (2019) Wild bee pollen usage and microbial communities covary across landscapes. Microbial Ecology. 77:513-522 [pdf]
Nooten SS, Rehan SM (2019) Agricultural land use yields reduced foraging efficiency and unviable offspring in the wild bee Ceratina calcarata. Ecological Entomology. 44:534-542 [pdf]
Odanaka KA, Hall J, Nooten SS, Rehan SM (2019) Wild Bees of Eastern North America: a guide to common pollinators and flowers. 120pp [pdf]
Odanaka KA, Rehan SM (2019) Impact indicators: effects of land use management on functional trait and phylogenetic diversity of wild bees. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment. 286:106663 [pdf]
Shell WA, Rehan SM (2019) Invasive range expansion of the small carpenter bee, Ceratina dentipes (Hymenoptera: Apidae) into Hawaii with implications for native endangered species displacement. Biological Invasions. 21:1155-1166 [pdf]
Shell WA, Rehan SM (2019) Social modularity: conserved genes and regulatory elements underlie caste-antecedent behavioural states in an incipiently social bee. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 286:20191815 [pdf]
Toth AL, Rehan SM (2019) Evolutionary Behavioral Genetics. In: Choe, J.C. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior, (2nd ed.). vol. 2, pp. 243–249. Elsevier, Academic Press [pdf]
Tucker EM, Rehan SM (2019) Wild bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) of the Ossipee Pine Barrens. North Eastern Naturalist. 26:379-391 [pdf]
Brasil SNR, Ayers AC, Rehan SM (2023) The effect of urbanization and seasonality on wild bee abundance, body size and foraging efforts. Ecological Entomology. 48:499-507 [pdf]
Brasil SNR, George M, Rehan SM (20230 Functional traits of wild bees in response to urbanization. Journal of Insect Conservation. In press. DOI:10.1007/s10841-023-00528-1 [pdf]
Brasil SNR, Kelemen EP, Rehan SM (2023) Historic DNA uncovers genetic effects of climate change and landscape alteration in two wild bee species. Conservation Genetics. 24:85-98 [pdf]
Brasil SNR, Khair M, Ayers AC, Huisken JL, Rehan SM (2023) Urban landscapes affect wild bee maternal investment and body size. Urban Ecosystems. 26:1319-1329 [pdf]
Chau KD, Samad-zada F, Kelemen EP, Rehan SM (2023) Integrative population genetics and metagenomics reveals urbanization increases pathogen loads and decreases connectivity in a wild bee. Global Change Biology. 29:4193-4211 [pdf]
Chau KD, Shamekh M, Husiken JL, Rehan SM (2023) The effects of maternal care on the developmental transcriptome and metatranscriptome of a wild bee. Communications Biology. 6:904 [pdf]
Favreau EA, Geist KS, Wyatt CDR, Toth AL, Sumner SS, Rehan SM (2023) Co-expression gene networks and machine-learning algorithms unveil a core genetic toolkit for reproductive division of labour in rudimentary insect societies. Genome Biology and Evolution. 15:evac174 [pdf]
Gotelli NJ, Booher DB, Urban MC, Ulrich W, Suarez AV, Skelly DK, Russell DJ, Rowe RJ, Rothendler M, Rios N, Rehan SM, Ni G, Moreau CS, Magurran AE, Jones FAM, Graves GR, Fiera C, Burkhardt U, Primack RB (2023) Estimating species relative abundances from museum records. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 14:431-443 [pdf]
Huisken JL, Rehan SM (2023) Brain gene expression of foraging behaviour and social environment in Ceratina calcarata. Genome Biology and Evolution. 15:evad117 [pdf]
Mikát M, Rehan SM (2023) Large fitness benefits of social nesting in a small carpenter bee. Behavioral Ecology. 34:1066-1075 [pdf]
Nguyen PN, Rehan SM (2023) Environmental effects on the bee microbiome. Microbial Ecology. 86:1487-1498 [pdf]
Nguyen PN, Rehan SM (2023) Wild bee and pollen microbiomes across an urban-rural divide. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. In press [pdf]
Pyenson B, Rehan SM (2023) Gene expression across socially diverse insects. Genome. In press [pdf]
Samad-zada F, Kelemen EP, Rehan SM (2023) The impact of geography and climate on the population structure and local adaptation in a wild bee. Evolutionary Applications. 16:1154-1168 [pdf]
Samad-zada F, Rehan SM (2023) The use of pinned specimens helps uncover patterns of genetic differentiation and signatures of selection in a wild pollinator. Global Ecology and Conservation. 46:e02593 [pdf]
Sumner S, Favreau E, Geist K, Toth AL, Rehan SM (2023) Molecular patterns and processes in evolving sociality: lessons from insects. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. 378:20220076 [pdf]
2022
Gaiarsa MP, Rehan SM, Barbour MA, McFrederick QS (2022) Individual dietary specialization in a generalist bee varies across populations but has no effect on the richness of associated microbial communities. The American Naturalist. 200:621-737 [pdf]
Huisken JL, Rehan SM (2022) Effects of nutritional manipulation on intranidal social behaviour in a small carpenter bee. Animal Behaviour. 191:135-141 [pdf]
Jaumann S, Rehan SM, Schwartz K, Smith AR (2022) Reduced neural investment in post-reproductive females of the bee Ceratina calcarata. Scientific Reports. 12:8256 [pdf]
Mikát M, Rehan SM (2022) Sociality in the North African small carpenter bee, Ceratina albosticta. Insectes Sociaux. 69:315-324 [pdf]
Nguyen PN, Rehan SM (2022) Developmental microbiome of the small carpenter bee, Ceratina calcarata. Environmental DNA. 4:808-819 [pdf]
Nguyen PN, Rehan SM (2022) The effects of urban land use gradients on wild bee microbiomes. Frontiers in Microbiology. 13:992660 [pdf]
Nooten SS, Rehan SM (2022) Effects of land use type and seasonal climate on ground nesting wild bees. Agricultural and Forest Entomology. 24:229-236 [pdf]
Odanaka KA, Branstetter MG, Tobin KB, Rehan SM (2022) Phylogenomics and historical biogeography of the cleptoparasitic bee genus Nomada (Hymenoptera: Apidae) using ultraconserved elements. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 170:107453 [pdf]
Shell WA, Rehan SM (2022) Social divergence: molecular pathways underlying castes and longevity in a facultatively eusocial small carpenter bee. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 289:20212663 [pdf]
Shell WA, Rehan SM (2022) Comparative metagenomics reveals expanded insights into intra- and interspecific variation among wild bee microbiomes. Communications Biology. 5:603 [pdf]
2021
Ayers AC, Rehan SM (2021) Supporting bees in cities: How bees are influenced by local and landscape features. Insects. 12:128 [pdf]
Conrad KM, Peters VE, Rehan SM (2021) Tropical bee species abundance differs within a narrow elevational gradient. Scientific Reports. 11:23368. [pdf]
Harpur BA, Rehan SM (2021) Connecting social polymorphism to single nucleotide polymorphism: Population genomics of the small carpenter bee, Ceratina australensis. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 132:945-954 [pdf]
Huisken JL, Shell WA, Pare HK, Rehan SM (2021) The influence of social environment on cooperation and conflict in an incipiently social bee, Ceratina calcarata. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 75:74 [pdf]
Kelemen EP, Rehan SM (2021) Opposing pressures of climate and land use change on a native bee. Global Change Biology. 27:1017-1026 [pdf]
Kelemen EP, Rehan SM (2021) Conservation insights from wild bee genetic studies: geographic differences, susceptibility to inbreeding, and signs of local adaptation. Evolutionary Applications. 14:1485-1496 [pdf]
Lawson SP, Kennedy K, Rehan SM (2021) Pollen composition significantly impacts development and survival of the native small carpenter bee, Ceratina calcarata. Ecological Entomology. 46:232-239 [pdf]
Oppenheimer RL, Rehan SM (2021) Inclusive fitness of male and facultatively social female nesting behavior in the socially polymorphic bee, Ceratina australensis. Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 114:627–636 [pdf]
Pizzi NJ, Rehan SM (2021) Characterization of cuticular hydrocarbons in a subsocial bee, Ceratina calcarata Robertson (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Insectes Sociaux. 68:351–358 [pdf]
Rehan SM (2021) Genome architecture and social evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118:e2109409118 [pdf]
Shell WA, Steffen MA, Pare HK, Seetharam AS, Severin AJ, Toth AL, Rehan SM (2021) Sociality sculpts similar patterns of molecular evolution in two independently evolved lineages of eusocial bees. Communications Biology. 4:253 [pdf]
2020
Dew RM, McFrederick QS, Rehan SM (2020) Diverse diets with consistent core microbiome in wild bee pollen
provisions. Insects. 11:49 [pdf]
Mathiasson ME, Rehan SM (2020) Wild bee declines linked to plant-pollinator network changes and plant species introductions. Insect Conservation and Diversity. 13:595-605 [pdf]
Nooten SS, Odanaka KA, Rehan SM (2020) Characterisation of wild bee communities in apple and blueberry orchards. Agricultural and Forest Entomology. 22:157-168 [pdf]
Nooten SS, Odanaka KA, Rehan SM (2020) Effects of farmland and seasonal phenology on wild bees in blueberry orchards. Northeastern Naturalist. 27:841–860 [pdf]
Nooten SS, Rehan SM (2020) Historical changes in bumble bee body size and range shift of declining species. Biodiversity and Conservation. 29:451–467 [pdf]
Odanaka KA, Rehan SM (2020) Wild bee distribution near forested landscapes is dependent on successional state. Forest Ecosystems. 7:26 [pdf]
Rehan SM (2020) Small carpenter bees (Ceratina). Encyclopedia of Social Insects. ed. Chris Stark. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90306-4_106-1 [pdf]
Steffen MA, Rehan SM (2020) Genetic signatures of dominance hierarchies reveal conserved cis-regulatory and brain gene expression underlying aggression in a facultatively social bee. Genes, Brain and Behavior. 19:e12597 [pdf]
2019
Cook CN, Lawson SP, Brent CS, Rehan SM (2019) Biogenic amines shift during the pre-reproductive to reproductive transition in the small carpenter bee, Ceratina calcarata. Apidologie. 50:90-99 [pdf]
Dew RM, Silva DP, Rehan SM (2019) Range expansion of an already widespread bee under climate change. Global Ecology and Conservation. e00584 [pdf]
Mathiasson ME, Rehan SM (2019) Status changes in the wild bees of northeastern North America over 125 years revealed though museum specimens. Insect Conservation and Diversity. 12:278-288 [pdf]
McFrederick QS, Rehan SM (2019) Wild bee pollen usage and microbial communities covary across landscapes. Microbial Ecology. 77:513-522 [pdf]
Nooten SS, Rehan SM (2019) Agricultural land use yields reduced foraging efficiency and unviable offspring in the wild bee Ceratina calcarata. Ecological Entomology. 44:534-542 [pdf]
Odanaka KA, Hall J, Nooten SS, Rehan SM (2019) Wild Bees of Eastern North America: a guide to common pollinators and flowers. 120pp [pdf]
Odanaka KA, Rehan SM (2019) Impact indicators: effects of land use management on functional trait and phylogenetic diversity of wild bees. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment. 286:106663 [pdf]
Shell WA, Rehan SM (2019) Invasive range expansion of the small carpenter bee, Ceratina dentipes (Hymenoptera: Apidae) into Hawaii with implications for native endangered species displacement. Biological Invasions. 21:1155-1166 [pdf]
Shell WA, Rehan SM (2019) Social modularity: conserved genes and regulatory elements underlie caste-antecedent behavioural states in an incipiently social bee. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 286:20191815 [pdf]
Toth AL, Rehan SM (2019) Evolutionary Behavioral Genetics. In: Choe, J.C. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior, (2nd ed.). vol. 2, pp. 243–249. Elsevier, Academic Press [pdf]
Tucker EM, Rehan SM (2019) Wild bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) of the Ossipee Pine Barrens. North Eastern Naturalist. 26:379-391 [pdf]
2018
Arsenault SV, Hunt BG, Rehan SM (2018) The effect of maternal care on gene expression and DNA methylation in a subsocial bee. Nature Communications 9:3468 [pdf]
Dew RM, Shell WA, Rehan SM (2018) Changes in maternal investment with climate moderate social behaviour in a facultatively social bee. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 72:69 [pdf]
Groom SV, Rehan SM (2018) Climate mediated behavioural variability in facultatively social bees. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 125:165-170 [pdf]
Jacobson MM, Tucker EM, Mathiasson ME, Rehan SM (2018) Decline of bumble bees in northeastern North America, with special focus on Bombus terricola. Biological Conservation 217:437-445 [pdf]
Lawson SP, Shell WA, Lombard SS, Rehan SM (2018) Climatic variation across a latitudinal gradient affect phenology and group size, but not social complexity in small carpenter bees. Insectes Sociaux 65:483-492 [pdf]
Odanaka KA, Hall J, Nooten SS, Rehan SM (2018) Wild Bees of New England: a guide to common pollinators and flowers. 120pp [pdf]
Oppenheimer RL, Shell WA, Rehan SM (2018) Phylogeography and population genetics of the Australian small carpenter bee, Ceratina australensis. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 124:747-755 [pdf]
Rehan SM, Glastad KM, Steffen MA, Fay C, Hunt BG, Toth AL (2018) Conserved genes underlie phenotypic plasticity in an incipiently social bee. Genome Biology and Evolution 10:2749-2758 [pdf]
Shell WA, Rehan SM (2018) The price of insurance: costs and benefits of worker production in a facultatively social bee. Behavioral Ecology 29:204–211 [pdf]
Shell WA, Rehan SM (2018) Behavioral and genetic mechanisms of social evolution: insights from incipiently and facultatively social bees. Apidologie 49:13–30 [pdf]
Tucker EM, Rehan SM (2018) Farming for bees: annual variation in pollinator populations across agricultural landscapes. Agricultural and Forest Entomology 20:541-548 [pdf]
Arsenault SV, Hunt BG, Rehan SM (2018) The effect of maternal care on gene expression and DNA methylation in a subsocial bee. Nature Communications 9:3468 [pdf]
Dew RM, Shell WA, Rehan SM (2018) Changes in maternal investment with climate moderate social behaviour in a facultatively social bee. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 72:69 [pdf]
Groom SV, Rehan SM (2018) Climate mediated behavioural variability in facultatively social bees. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 125:165-170 [pdf]
Jacobson MM, Tucker EM, Mathiasson ME, Rehan SM (2018) Decline of bumble bees in northeastern North America, with special focus on Bombus terricola. Biological Conservation 217:437-445 [pdf]
Lawson SP, Shell WA, Lombard SS, Rehan SM (2018) Climatic variation across a latitudinal gradient affect phenology and group size, but not social complexity in small carpenter bees. Insectes Sociaux 65:483-492 [pdf]
Odanaka KA, Hall J, Nooten SS, Rehan SM (2018) Wild Bees of New England: a guide to common pollinators and flowers. 120pp [pdf]
Oppenheimer RL, Shell WA, Rehan SM (2018) Phylogeography and population genetics of the Australian small carpenter bee, Ceratina australensis. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 124:747-755 [pdf]
Rehan SM, Glastad KM, Steffen MA, Fay C, Hunt BG, Toth AL (2018) Conserved genes underlie phenotypic plasticity in an incipiently social bee. Genome Biology and Evolution 10:2749-2758 [pdf]
Shell WA, Rehan SM (2018) The price of insurance: costs and benefits of worker production in a facultatively social bee. Behavioral Ecology 29:204–211 [pdf]
Shell WA, Rehan SM (2018) Behavioral and genetic mechanisms of social evolution: insights from incipiently and facultatively social bees. Apidologie 49:13–30 [pdf]
Tucker EM, Rehan SM (2018) Farming for bees: annual variation in pollinator populations across agricultural landscapes. Agricultural and Forest Entomology 20:541-548 [pdf]
2017
Glastad KM, Arsenault SV, Vertacnik KL, Geib SM, Kay S, Danforth BN, Rehan SM, Linnen CR, Kocher SD, Hunt BG (2017) Variation in DNA methylation is not consistently reflected by sociality in Hymenoptera. Genome Biology and Evolution 9:1687–1698 [pdf]
Graystock P, Rehan SM, McFrederick QS (2017) Hunting for healthy microbiomes: determining the core microbiomes of Ceratina, Megalopta, and Apis bees and how they associate with microbes in bee collected pollen. Conservation Genetics 18:701-711 [pdf]
Lawson SP, Helmreich SL, Rehan SM (2017) Effects of nutritional deprivation on development and behavior in the subsocial bee Ceratina calcarata. Journal of Experimental Biology 220:4456-4462 [pdf]
Mikát M, Franchino C, Rehan SM (2017) Sociodemographic variation in foraging behavior and the adaptive significance of worker production in the facultatively social small carpenter bee, Ceratina calcarata. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 71:135 [pdf]
Shell WA, Rehan SM (2017) Range expansion of the small carpenter bee, Ceratina smaragdula, across the Hawaiian archipelago with potential ecological implications for native pollinator systems. Pacific Science 71:1-15 [pdf] [cover]
Toth AL, Rehan SM (2017) Molecular evolution of insect sociality: an eco-evo-devo perspective. Annual Review of Entomology 62:419-442 [pdf]
Tucker EM, Rehan SM (2017) Wild bee community stability across agricultural landscapes. Journal of Agricultural and Urban Entomology 33:77-104 [pdf]
Tucker EM, Rehan SM (2017) High elevation refugia for Bombus terricola conservation and wild bees of the White Mountain National Forest. Journal of Insect Science 17:1-10 [pdf]
Withee JR, Rehan SM (2017) Social experience, aggression and brain gene expression in a subsocial bee. Integrative and Comparative Biology 57:640-648 [pdf]
Glastad KM, Arsenault SV, Vertacnik KL, Geib SM, Kay S, Danforth BN, Rehan SM, Linnen CR, Kocher SD, Hunt BG (2017) Variation in DNA methylation is not consistently reflected by sociality in Hymenoptera. Genome Biology and Evolution 9:1687–1698 [pdf]
Graystock P, Rehan SM, McFrederick QS (2017) Hunting for healthy microbiomes: determining the core microbiomes of Ceratina, Megalopta, and Apis bees and how they associate with microbes in bee collected pollen. Conservation Genetics 18:701-711 [pdf]
Lawson SP, Helmreich SL, Rehan SM (2017) Effects of nutritional deprivation on development and behavior in the subsocial bee Ceratina calcarata. Journal of Experimental Biology 220:4456-4462 [pdf]
Mikát M, Franchino C, Rehan SM (2017) Sociodemographic variation in foraging behavior and the adaptive significance of worker production in the facultatively social small carpenter bee, Ceratina calcarata. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 71:135 [pdf]
Shell WA, Rehan SM (2017) Range expansion of the small carpenter bee, Ceratina smaragdula, across the Hawaiian archipelago with potential ecological implications for native pollinator systems. Pacific Science 71:1-15 [pdf] [cover]
Toth AL, Rehan SM (2017) Molecular evolution of insect sociality: an eco-evo-devo perspective. Annual Review of Entomology 62:419-442 [pdf]
Tucker EM, Rehan SM (2017) Wild bee community stability across agricultural landscapes. Journal of Agricultural and Urban Entomology 33:77-104 [pdf]
Tucker EM, Rehan SM (2017) High elevation refugia for Bombus terricola conservation and wild bees of the White Mountain National Forest. Journal of Insect Science 17:1-10 [pdf]
Withee JR, Rehan SM (2017) Social experience, aggression and brain gene expression in a subsocial bee. Integrative and Comparative Biology 57:640-648 [pdf]
2016
Dew RM, Rehan SM, Schwarz MP (2016) Biogeography and demography of an Australian native bee Ceratina australensis (Hymenoptera: Apidae) since the last glacial maximum. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 49:25-41 [pdf]
Durant DR, Berens AJ, Toth AL, Rehan SM (2016) Transcriptional profiling of overwintering gene expression in the small carpenter bee, Ceratina calcarata. Apidologie 47:572-582 [pdf]
Lawson SP, Ciaccio KN, Rehan SM (2016) Maternal manipulation of pollen provisions affects worker production in a small carpenter bee. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 70:1891-1900 [pdf]
McFrederick QS, Rehan SM (2016) Characterization of pollen and bacterial community composition in brood provisions of a small carpenter bee. Molecular Ecology 25:2302-2311 [pdf]
Rehan SM, Glastad KM, Lawson SP, Hunt BG (2016) The genome and methylome of a subsocial small carpenter bee, Ceratina calcarata. Genome Biology and Evolution 8:1401-1410 [pdf]
Shell WA, Rehan SM (2016) Development of multiple polymorphic microsatellite markers for the small carpenter bee, Ceratina calcarata, using genome-wide analysis. Journal of Insect Science 16:57 [pdf]
Shell WA, Rehan SM (2016) Recent and rapid diversification of the small carpenter bees in eastern North America. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 117:633-645 [pdf]
Tucker EM, Rehan SM (2016) Wild bee pollination networks in northern New England. Journal of Insect Conservation 20:325–337 [pdf]
Withee JR, Rehan SM (2016) Cumulative effects of body size and social experience on aggressive behaviour in a subsocial bee. Behaviour 153:1365-1385 [pdf]
Dew RM, Rehan SM, Schwarz MP (2016) Biogeography and demography of an Australian native bee Ceratina australensis (Hymenoptera: Apidae) since the last glacial maximum. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 49:25-41 [pdf]
Durant DR, Berens AJ, Toth AL, Rehan SM (2016) Transcriptional profiling of overwintering gene expression in the small carpenter bee, Ceratina calcarata. Apidologie 47:572-582 [pdf]
Lawson SP, Ciaccio KN, Rehan SM (2016) Maternal manipulation of pollen provisions affects worker production in a small carpenter bee. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 70:1891-1900 [pdf]
McFrederick QS, Rehan SM (2016) Characterization of pollen and bacterial community composition in brood provisions of a small carpenter bee. Molecular Ecology 25:2302-2311 [pdf]
Rehan SM, Glastad KM, Lawson SP, Hunt BG (2016) The genome and methylome of a subsocial small carpenter bee, Ceratina calcarata. Genome Biology and Evolution 8:1401-1410 [pdf]
Shell WA, Rehan SM (2016) Development of multiple polymorphic microsatellite markers for the small carpenter bee, Ceratina calcarata, using genome-wide analysis. Journal of Insect Science 16:57 [pdf]
Shell WA, Rehan SM (2016) Recent and rapid diversification of the small carpenter bees in eastern North America. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 117:633-645 [pdf]
Tucker EM, Rehan SM (2016) Wild bee pollination networks in northern New England. Journal of Insect Conservation 20:325–337 [pdf]
Withee JR, Rehan SM (2016) Cumulative effects of body size and social experience on aggressive behaviour in a subsocial bee. Behaviour 153:1365-1385 [pdf]
2015
Rehan SM, Toth AL (2015) Climbing the social ladder: molecular evolution of sociality. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 30:426-433 [pdf]
Rehan SM, Tierney SM, Wcislo WT (2015) Evidence for social nesting in Neotropical ceratinine bees. Insectes Sociaux 62:465-469 [pdf]
Rehan SM, Schwarz MP (2015) A few steps forward and no steps back: long-distance dispersal patterns in small carpenter bees suggest major barriers to back-dispersal. Journal of Biogeography 42:485-494 [pdf] [cover]
Rehan SM, Bulova SJ, O'Donnell S (2015) Cumulative effects of foraging behaviour and social dominance on brain development in a facultatively social bee (Ceratina australensis). Brain, Behavior and Evolution 85:117-124 [pdf]
Richards MH, Onuferko T, Rehan SM (2015) Phenological, but not social, variation in response to climate differences in a eusocial sweat bee, Halictus ligatus, nesting in southern Ontario. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 43:19-44 [pdf]
2014
Groom SV, Ngo H, Rehan SM, Skelton P, Stevens M, Schwarz MP (2014) Multiple recent invasions of apid bees into Pacific archipelagos signify potentially large consequences for both agriculture and indigenous ecosystems. Biological Invasions 16:2293-2302 [pdf]
Rehan SM, Berens AJ, Toth AL (2014) At the brink of eusociality: transcriptomic correlates of worker behavior in a small carpenter bee. BMC Evolutionary Biology 14:260 [pdf]
Rehan SM, Richards MH, Adams M, Schwarz MP (2014) The costs and benefits of sociality in a facultatively social bee. Animal Behaviour 97:77-85 [pdf]
2013
Rehan SM, Leys R, Schwarz MP (2013) First evidence for a massive extinction event affecting bees close to the
K-T boundary. PLOS One 8:e76683 [pdf]
Rehan SM, Richards MH (2013) Reproductive aggression and nestmate recognition in a subsocial bee. Animal Behaviour 85:733-741 [pdf]
Rehan SM, Rotella A, Onuferko T, Richards MH (2013) Colony disturbance and solitary nest initiation by workers in the obligately eusocial sweat bee, Halictus ligatus. Insectes Sociaux 60:389-392 [pdf]
Tierney SM, Fischer C, Rehan SM, Kapheim K, Wcislo WT (2013) Frequency of social nesting in the sweat bee Megalopta genalis (Halictidae) does not vary across a rainfall gradient, despite disparity in brood production and body size. Insectes Sociaux 60:163-172 [pdf]
Vojvodic S, Rehan SM, Anderson K (2013) Microbial gut diversity of Africanized and European honey bee larval instars. PLOS One 8:e72106 [pdf]
2012
Dew RM, Rehan SM, Tierney SM, Chenoweth LB, Schwarz MP (2012) Sociality in allodapine bees: a single origin of large colony size suggests a threshold event among 50 million years of evolutionary tinkering. Insectes Sociaux 59:207-214 [pdf]
Rehan SM, Leys R, Schwarz MP (2012) A mid-cretaceous origin of sociality in xylocopine bees with only two origins of true worker castes. PLOS One 7:e34690 [pdf]
2011
Rehan SM, Schwarz MP, Richards MH (2011) Fitness consequences of ecological constraints and implications for the evolution of sociality in an incipiently social bee. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 103:57-67 [pdf]
Rehan SM, Sheffield CS (2011) Morphological and molecular delineation of a new species in the Ceratina dupla species-group (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Xylocopinae) of eastern North America. Zootaxa 2873:35-50 [pdf]
Richards MH, Rutgers-Kelly A, Gibbs J, Vickruck JL, Rehan SM, Sheffield CS (2011) Bee diversity in naturalizing patches of Carolinian grasslands in southern Ontario, Canada. Canadian Entomologist 143:279–299 [pdf]
Schwarz MP, Tierney SM, Rehan SM, Chenoweth LB, Cooper SJ (2011) The evolution of eusociality in allodapine bees: workers began by waiting. Biology Letters 7:277-280 [pdf]
Vickruck JL, Rehan SM, Sheffield CS, Richards MH (2011) Nesting biology and DNA barcode analysis of Ceratina dupla and C. mikmaqi, and comparisons with C. calcarata (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Xylocopinae). Canadian Entomologist 143:254–262 [pdf]
2010
Rehan SM, Chapman TW, Craigie A, Richards MH, Cooper SJ, Schwarz MP (2010) Molecular phylogeny of the small carpenter bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Ceratinini) indicates early and rapid global dispersal. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 55:1042-1054 [pdf]
Rehan SM, Richards MH (2010a) Nesting and life cycle of Ceratina calcarata in southern Ontario (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Xylocopinae). Canadian Entomologist 142:65-74 [pdf]
Rehan SM, Richards MH (2010b) The influence of maternal quality on brood sex allocation in the small carpenter bee, Ceratina calcarata. Ethology 116:876-887 [pdf]
Rehan SM, Richards MH, Schwarz MP (2010) Sociality in the Australian small carpenter bee Ceratina (Neoceratina) australensis. Insectes Sociaux 57:403-412 [pdf]
Richards MH, Vickruck JL, Rehan SM (2010) Colony social organization of Halictus confusus in southern Ontario, with comments on sociality in the subgenus H. (Seladonia). Journal of Hymenoptera Research 19:144-158 [pdf]
2009
Rehan SM, Richards MH, Schwarz MP (2009) Evidence of social nesting in Ceratina of Borneo. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 82:194-209 [pdf]
2008
Rehan SM, Richards MH (2008) Morphological and DNA sequence delineation of two problematic species of Ceratina (Hymenoptera: Apidae) from eastern Canada. Journal of the Entomological Society of Ontario
139:49-57 [pdf]
Rehan SM, Toth AL (2015) Climbing the social ladder: molecular evolution of sociality. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 30:426-433 [pdf]
Rehan SM, Tierney SM, Wcislo WT (2015) Evidence for social nesting in Neotropical ceratinine bees. Insectes Sociaux 62:465-469 [pdf]
Rehan SM, Schwarz MP (2015) A few steps forward and no steps back: long-distance dispersal patterns in small carpenter bees suggest major barriers to back-dispersal. Journal of Biogeography 42:485-494 [pdf] [cover]
Rehan SM, Bulova SJ, O'Donnell S (2015) Cumulative effects of foraging behaviour and social dominance on brain development in a facultatively social bee (Ceratina australensis). Brain, Behavior and Evolution 85:117-124 [pdf]
Richards MH, Onuferko T, Rehan SM (2015) Phenological, but not social, variation in response to climate differences in a eusocial sweat bee, Halictus ligatus, nesting in southern Ontario. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 43:19-44 [pdf]
2014
Groom SV, Ngo H, Rehan SM, Skelton P, Stevens M, Schwarz MP (2014) Multiple recent invasions of apid bees into Pacific archipelagos signify potentially large consequences for both agriculture and indigenous ecosystems. Biological Invasions 16:2293-2302 [pdf]
Rehan SM, Berens AJ, Toth AL (2014) At the brink of eusociality: transcriptomic correlates of worker behavior in a small carpenter bee. BMC Evolutionary Biology 14:260 [pdf]
Rehan SM, Richards MH, Adams M, Schwarz MP (2014) The costs and benefits of sociality in a facultatively social bee. Animal Behaviour 97:77-85 [pdf]
2013
Rehan SM, Leys R, Schwarz MP (2013) First evidence for a massive extinction event affecting bees close to the
K-T boundary. PLOS One 8:e76683 [pdf]
Rehan SM, Richards MH (2013) Reproductive aggression and nestmate recognition in a subsocial bee. Animal Behaviour 85:733-741 [pdf]
Rehan SM, Rotella A, Onuferko T, Richards MH (2013) Colony disturbance and solitary nest initiation by workers in the obligately eusocial sweat bee, Halictus ligatus. Insectes Sociaux 60:389-392 [pdf]
Tierney SM, Fischer C, Rehan SM, Kapheim K, Wcislo WT (2013) Frequency of social nesting in the sweat bee Megalopta genalis (Halictidae) does not vary across a rainfall gradient, despite disparity in brood production and body size. Insectes Sociaux 60:163-172 [pdf]
Vojvodic S, Rehan SM, Anderson K (2013) Microbial gut diversity of Africanized and European honey bee larval instars. PLOS One 8:e72106 [pdf]
2012
Dew RM, Rehan SM, Tierney SM, Chenoweth LB, Schwarz MP (2012) Sociality in allodapine bees: a single origin of large colony size suggests a threshold event among 50 million years of evolutionary tinkering. Insectes Sociaux 59:207-214 [pdf]
Rehan SM, Leys R, Schwarz MP (2012) A mid-cretaceous origin of sociality in xylocopine bees with only two origins of true worker castes. PLOS One 7:e34690 [pdf]
2011
Rehan SM, Schwarz MP, Richards MH (2011) Fitness consequences of ecological constraints and implications for the evolution of sociality in an incipiently social bee. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 103:57-67 [pdf]
Rehan SM, Sheffield CS (2011) Morphological and molecular delineation of a new species in the Ceratina dupla species-group (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Xylocopinae) of eastern North America. Zootaxa 2873:35-50 [pdf]
Richards MH, Rutgers-Kelly A, Gibbs J, Vickruck JL, Rehan SM, Sheffield CS (2011) Bee diversity in naturalizing patches of Carolinian grasslands in southern Ontario, Canada. Canadian Entomologist 143:279–299 [pdf]
Schwarz MP, Tierney SM, Rehan SM, Chenoweth LB, Cooper SJ (2011) The evolution of eusociality in allodapine bees: workers began by waiting. Biology Letters 7:277-280 [pdf]
Vickruck JL, Rehan SM, Sheffield CS, Richards MH (2011) Nesting biology and DNA barcode analysis of Ceratina dupla and C. mikmaqi, and comparisons with C. calcarata (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Xylocopinae). Canadian Entomologist 143:254–262 [pdf]
2010
Rehan SM, Chapman TW, Craigie A, Richards MH, Cooper SJ, Schwarz MP (2010) Molecular phylogeny of the small carpenter bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Ceratinini) indicates early and rapid global dispersal. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 55:1042-1054 [pdf]
Rehan SM, Richards MH (2010a) Nesting and life cycle of Ceratina calcarata in southern Ontario (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Xylocopinae). Canadian Entomologist 142:65-74 [pdf]
Rehan SM, Richards MH (2010b) The influence of maternal quality on brood sex allocation in the small carpenter bee, Ceratina calcarata. Ethology 116:876-887 [pdf]
Rehan SM, Richards MH, Schwarz MP (2010) Sociality in the Australian small carpenter bee Ceratina (Neoceratina) australensis. Insectes Sociaux 57:403-412 [pdf]
Richards MH, Vickruck JL, Rehan SM (2010) Colony social organization of Halictus confusus in southern Ontario, with comments on sociality in the subgenus H. (Seladonia). Journal of Hymenoptera Research 19:144-158 [pdf]
2009
Rehan SM, Richards MH, Schwarz MP (2009) Evidence of social nesting in Ceratina of Borneo. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 82:194-209 [pdf]
2008
Rehan SM, Richards MH (2008) Morphological and DNA sequence delineation of two problematic species of Ceratina (Hymenoptera: Apidae) from eastern Canada. Journal of the Entomological Society of Ontario
139:49-57 [pdf]